Quotes About Ignorance

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.